A week ago I challenged myself to drive 100 '#Bitcoin Interactions' in 100 Days.

100 Bitcoin Interactions in 100 Days!

A personal challenge to further Bitcoin adoption

An 'Interaction' = help someone earn/buy/sell/spend #Bitcoin A visual TLDR....

What is the best way to see Bitcoin transaction data? (On chain and lighting) looking to understand the avg daily transactions that occur on lightning and the associated amount. Context: looking to create a bunch of notes comparing current payment processors and BTC.

Has anyone encountered issues with Iris? Chrome seems to work but Brave does not.

I've been working on an illustrated notebook of Bitcoin terms. Here is a preview. Would appreciate your feedback or thoughts on this. Is this needed? How can I make it better?

An Illustrated Bitcoin Dictionary (in-progress)

An overview of the basic Bitcoin terms

Have you had any issues with iris? I tried to follow some people on iris but doesn't seem to have worked. The follow button highlights but doesn't do anything.

#[0] I tried to orange pill a couple friends yesterday by sending them a few thousand sats (~$2) to get the convo going. Takeaway: they were so impressed by the speed but didn't have a clear response on how they can spend it given it was such a small amount. Only option was to buy, or accept BTC in order to accumulate more and 'use it' Aside from bitrefil, bitwage, bitcoin company I didn't have an answer that would have helped them. Don't these services need a minimum amount to transfer/buy BTC?

Is your #Bitcoin node taking forever to sync? I may have stumbled on a solution. I was using an external SSD connected to my Mac to download Bitcoin Core. It got to 60% and it was taking forever! After some digging, I found out that moving the 'indexes' and 'chainstate' folder onto my local hard drive would speed up the process. I was skeptical but gave it a shot. Doing so saved me a few days of sync time! Step 1: Quit Bitcoin Core Step 2: Copy the existing folder ('indexes' and 'chainstate' ) from the external SSD onto the local drive. (I chose Desktop for ease) Step 3: Rename the existing folder on external SSD ('indexes' and 'chainstate') -> ('indexes-old' and 'chainstate-old' ) Step 4: Create an Alias/shortcut of the local folders and move it to the external SSD. If you're comfortable with terminal, naviate to the external SSD to the Bitcoin core folder and use the ln function ('ln -sf /Users/user/Desktop/indexes indexes') Step 5: If you used the Alias method, rename the folders by removing 'alias' from the folder name. This is NOT needed if you used the Terminal method Step 6: Open Bitcoin Core and let it sync (it should be much faster now) Step 7: Once Bitcoin Core is synced, you can leave the folder setup as is or revert in such a way that all folders are reading off the external SSD (ie remove the alias folders and copy over the contents of the local folders onto the SSD)